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Pushing Daisies :: Pie-lette (01x01)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: Pie-lette
Episode #: 01x01
Production Number: 101
Original Airdate: Wednesday October 03rd, 2007
9.1/10 (17 Votes cast)
Other Release Dates: (Edit)
Country: Aired On:
UK (ITV1) Apr 12, 2008
NL (Net 5) Aug 19, 2008
Episode Crew
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Bryan Fuller (1)
 
Episode Summary
 
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As a child, Ned discovered he had a very unique ability -- he can bring someone back to life with a simple touch, but if the touches them again, they return to dead for good. His ability takes a complicated turn when his childhood sweetheart, Chuck, is murdered and Ned brings her back to life. Now that she knows his secret, Chuck agrees to help Ned and his partner, private eye Emerson Cod, solve murders by talking to the victims.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Patrick BreenplayedLeo Gaswint 
Co-Guest Stars
Terry AnzurplayedNewscaster #3Recurring (first appearance)
Ed BrigadierplayedMinister #1Recurring (first appearance)
Field CateplayedYoung NedRecurring (first appearance)
Brad GrunbergplayedFuneral DirectorRecurring (first appearance)
Tina GlossplayedNed's MotherRecurring (first appearance)
Sammi HanrattyplayedYoung ChuckRecurring (first appearance)
Leyna NguyenplayedNewscaster #2Recurring (first appearance)
Sy RichardsonplayedCoronerRecurring (first appearance)
Ted GarciaplayedNewscaster #1 
Murray GershenzplayedThe Rabbi 
Geraud MoncuréplayedNewscaster #4 
Greg SuddethplayedGravedigger #1 
David TriceplayedMartin Miltenberger 
Julie WittnerplayedDeedee 
Jeff WolfeplayedShiny Shoes Killer 
 
Main Cast
 
Lee PaceplayedNed
Anna FrielplayedCharlotte "Chuck" Charles
Chi McBrideplayedEmerson Cod
Jim Dale (1)voicedNarrator
Ellen Greene (1)playedVivian Charles
Swoosie KurtzplayedLily Charles
Kristin ChenowethplayedOlive Snook
 
Episode Notes
 
Bryan Fuller was nominated for an Emmy for "Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series" for his work on this episode.
 
 
Episode Quotes
 
Ned: I asked you not to use the word "zombie." It's disrespectful. Stumbling around squawking for brains? It's not how they do. And "undead"? Nobody wants to be "un"-anything. Why begin a statement with a negative? It's like saying "I don't disagree." Just say you agree.
Emerson: Are you comfortable with "living dead"?
Ned: You're either living or your dead. When you're living, you're alive. When you're dead, that's what you are. But when you're dead and then you're not, you're alive again. Can't we say "alive again"?
 
Emerson: Sounds like you're a narcoleptic.
Ned: I suffer from sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep?
Emerson: What's the other one?
Ned: "Necrophiliac."
Emerson: Words that sound alike get mixed up in my head.
Olive: Me, too. I used to think "masturbation" meant chewing your food. (everyone stares) I don't think that anymore.
 
(preparing to view a mauled corpse)
Emerson: How’s he look?
Ned: He looks pretty good, but my threshold’s pretty high so you have to take that with a grain of salt.
Emerson: That ain’t a grain of salt, that’s one of them blocks they give cows to lick.
 
Ned: I hate to be a bad host, but I'm sort of exhausted from chasing your coffin.
 
Chuck: You said you wanted to know who killed me so that justice could be served. See, I don't think that "Justice" was on the menu. Maybe as a side dish, but not as an entrée.
Ned: It was most definitely an entrée. It was a Special of the Day. Could we drop the metaphor? I wouldn't have known you had died if it wasn't for the reward.
Chuck: When were you going to tell me?
Ned: In the morning or whenever it came up--whichever didn't come first.
 
Chuck: Do you believe in reincarnation?
Emerson: Hell no. The planet's falling apart. Right now, it's the children's problem. We reincarnate, it's our problem.
 
Emerson: I'm glad you did it. It makes the worst thing I ever did seem insignificant.
Ned: Listen to you, all judgy judge.
Emerson: "Judgy judge"?
 
Narrator: As he stared at her, he reached around his back and held his own hand, pretending he was holding hers. And at that very moment, she was pretending to be holding his.
 
 
Episode Goofs
 
The narrator explains that Aunt Lily didn't see Chuck because she only had one good eye and then the camera give us what is meant to be Lily's perspective. The problem is that her good eye is on the left but they distorted the camera to show the wall blocking her right eye, i.e. the bad eye. From the angle presented, Lily would have seen Chuck clearly with her good eye.
 
When Ned touches the dead strawberries, they come back to fully healed life. But when he touches the dead man, Lou, his face remains chewed away and doesn't heal. This continues in future episodes, so maybe Ned's power works differently on fruit then it does on humans, but this is never indicated on-screen.
 
 
Other Episode Crew
 
CreatorBryan Fuller (1)
Executive ProducerBarry Sonnenfeld  |  Bryan Fuller (1)
MusicJames Dooley
Costume DesignerRobert Blackman
Story EditorChad Gomez Creasey  |  Dara Resnik Creasey
Executive Story EditorKatherine Lingenfelter
 
 
Featured Songs
 
 
 
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